Re: [boost] Property tree rev.5

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 09:29:09

On 4/11/06, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> What is the rationale for using the word "property" here?
>
> Why is this data structure not a more generic tree?  It seems as
> though forcing the data on a tree node to be a specialization of
> basic_string is needlessly limiting.

Perhaps the use of std::string is needlessly limiting, but what makes the
property_tree a little bit different than a generic tree container is the
concept that child nodes are associated with a key, and there are
convenience methods provided for finding nodes by their "path" in the tree.

The same effect could perhaps be accomlished using (hypothetically) a
generic_tree<std::pair<std::string, std::string> >, but this would need to
in turn be wrapped in another interface to achieve the same ease-of-use.

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Caleb Epstein
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